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Heisted Links?

I just saw something interesting. I saw an author's webite in a promo I get via e-mail. (Okay, so I've cut back! But, I'm still reading too much e-mail.)

When I clicked through, rather than pull up the erotic romance author's website, I was forwarded to an anti-porn site. Seeing as how the author would want to sell books (which aren't porn, but are erotic romance), I assume this isn't their choice.

Has anyone else ever seen this happen? How can a website pirate a link like that?

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  1. Shesawriter6:39 PM PST

    Now that's interesting. I'd say it wasn't a coincidence either.

    Tanya

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  2. Lynn7:52 AM PST

    I've never had that happen to me. If it was something that happened to you link rather than just an internet burp (which does happen from time to time) my guess would be the heister managed to redirect the heistee's domain.

    When I first bought my domain name, rather than having it pointing directly at something, I had it set to redirect. Maybe the heister managed to do this?

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  3. Angela's Designs4:23 PM PST

    Could be... but didn't redirect from Google when I searched there, just the e-mail. It has me curious, but not so much I wanted to research the more techy sites! Last time I did that I waded through all these forums before I found an answer I didn't really need anyway. LOL.

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  4. kybruno5:48 PM PST

    We all link stuff here in bloggerland and there is nothing to stop me from typing Amazon.com and then linking to Barnes&Noble. I'm sure there is something just as easy to do with emails.

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  5. Angela's Designs7:27 PM PST

    I see what you mean. That wasn't the case this time, the link lead to the author's URL, but it forwarded to this other domain. i could see that happening, couldn't stop it though.

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  6. Angela's Designs3:51 PM PST

    I heard about that white house one bringing this one up. Talk about a way to get visitors to a porn site!

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